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MetroMPG · 01-01-2009, 11:14 AM

Oh - should have clarified: "hypercar" is about max performance, but of the efficiency kind, not the Cobra acceleration/handling kind.

EG: see Custom mini hypercar in this thread: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ding-1280.html

Looks like that word came from Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute: http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid191.php

01-01-2009, 11:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
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